Durbin and Murkowski Reintroduce Dream Act of 2025 in Final Push for Citizenship Pathway

Overview

• The bill would allow certain immigrants brought to the United States as children to pursue citizenship by meeting education, work, or military service requirements.
• The proposal renews a bipartisan effort Durbin first launched in 2001 that has repeatedly stalled in Congress.
• DACA continues to protect many from deportation but offers no path to citizenship, and an appeals court left work authorization unlawful in Texas only.
• Supporters cite stepped-up detentions and deportations, including reported arrests of DACA recipients and heavily armed operations in Chicago, as reasons to act.
• Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Catherine Cortez Masto pledged to keep pressing the effort after Durbin retires.